INTREPID Prince Harry plans to be the first Royal to boldly go into space - and even wants to enter Nasa training.

Army pilot Harry, 26, is a closet Star Trek fan and "obsessed with space", according to friends.

They say he has already asked Sir Richard Branson's son Sam for a seat on one of the first Virgin Galactic sub-orbital flights.

But he hopes to become an honorary member of the elite US space programme after returning from Afghanistan next year.